The NFL said that the Dallas Cowboys will play the Philadelphia Eagles on Thanksgiving Day, Week 12 of the 2026 season. The game will air on FOX at 3:30 p.m. CT.
The game will be Dallas's 59th Thanksgiving showing. The team has a long history of playing in Thanksgiving games. Not only that, but it will be the first time since 2014 that the Cowboys play on Thanksgiving.
As of this game, Dallas has won four straight Thanksgiving games and has a 35-22-1 record all-time. A record 57.23 million people watched the team's 31–28 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in 2025, making it the most-watched regular-season game in NFL history.
Most of Dallas's recent Thanksgiving opponents have been from the NFC East. In 2024 and 2022, they beat the New York Giants, and in 2023, they beat the Washington Commanders.
Even though Dallas has had a good holiday season overall, they still need to beat Philadelphia on Thanksgiving to get their first win. The only other times the Cowboys played the Eagles during the holiday season, they lost: 33-10 in 2014 and 27-0 in 1989.
The competition is still fierce. In 2025, the teams played each other twice. In Week 1, Philadelphia won 24–20, but in Week 12, Dallas came back from a 21–point hole to win 24–21. The Cowboys have won four of the last six games and have a 75–59 record over 134 games.
The Thanksgiving game is one of three games that Dallas will definitely play in 2026. This season, the Cowboys will play the Giants on the road in Week 1. In Week 3, they will play the Ravens in Rio de Janeiro.
It will be May 14 at 7 p.m. CT when the full NFL schedule for 2026 is made public.
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